Mallard Fillmore

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Postby Bennett Cerf » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:40 am

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Postby CitizenDan » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:57 pm

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Postby Bennett Cerf » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:42 pm

The book actually came out in 2000. I wonder if Tinsley started reading it then.

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Postby Bennett Cerf » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:57 am

For the love of Christ, when will Tinsley stop telling the same lie?

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Postby Rspaight » Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:48 am

RQOTW: "I'll make sure that our future is defined not by the letters ACLU, but by the letters USA." -- Mitt Romney

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Postby lukpac » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:13 am

Bennett Cerf wrote:For the love of Christ, when will Tinsley stop telling the same lie?

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When he finds something else to harp on endlessly.
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Postby Jeff » Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:44 pm

Rspaight wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie


Ha. The OSS profile of Hitler could just as easily apply to Shrub.

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

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Postby Bennett Cerf » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:20 am

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Postby krabapple » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:38 am

That's what's great about Tinsley -- he's not afraid to take on the big targets.

Check out the Wikipedia entry on MF --

The strip follows the exploits of its title character, a politically conservative anthropomorphic green-feathered duck who works as a reporter at fictional television station WFDR in Washington, D.C.


I can't say I've ever seen Mallard engage in any *exploits*, can you? Tinsely doesn't even both to draw backgrounds most of the time.

(Contrast him to 'Lucky Ducky' in Ruben Bolling's excellent 'Tom the Dancing Bug' strip.)
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Postby Rspaight » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:58 am

Apparently, there used to be plotlines and supporting characters and all sorts of stuff in MF. Now, not so much.

The worst-ever "Tom The Dancing Bug" is infinitely funnier than the best-ever MF.

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Postby Bennett Cerf » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:51 am

Uh...?

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Postby Jeff » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:18 am

So now this goofball is equating Abraham Lincoln, MLK and JFK with the Three Stooges? I think he could have picked a better folk song to parody.

He's such an iconoclast.

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Postby Bennett Cerf » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:15 am

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Boy! They're really sockin' it to that Spiro Agnew guy again, he must work there or something.

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Postby lukpac » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:15 am

"I know because it is impossible for a tape to hold the compression levels of these treble boosted MFSL's like Something/Anything. The metal particulate on the tape would shatter and all you'd hear is distortion if even that." - VD

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Postby MK » Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:15 pm

Do people actually enjoy this strip? Seriously, this has to be the saddest shambling wreck of a comic strip I've ever seen. I can't see how a diehard conservative can enjoy this strip on political sympathy alone - its right-wing agenda has mutated into some kind of bizarre, incessant crackpot rant. It's like Grandpa Simpson's ramblings strung together, but not nearly as funny.
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